After chatting with Director Liu and Researcher Zhu for a while, Gu Biao had a certain understanding of some recent new projects of the relevant cultural departments.

He also had to sigh: although for most of the 80s, and even in the early 90s, the country was still relatively poor, and many projects in the cultural media industry were not invested much in terms of capital budget.

But in fact, it is only because the price of many resources is underestimated, and those projects directly promoted by the national level and the Ministry of Culture are unimaginable in later generations.

For example, in the early 90s, in order to film "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it actually used 40,000 troops to serve as various group performances and soldiers, and nine film crews went to all parts of the country to shoot separately. It would be very exaggerated to put these personnel into the real industry and price them according to the salary of the industry.

Not to mention "Armageddon", which is set in modern warfare, it is said that more than 100,000 people were mobilized to participate in the performance, and those military supplies at that time were not included in the cost of film shooting, but only included in the normal consumption of military exercises and training. So if you really settle the account, I'm afraid you can scare the so-called "top Hollywood productions" in the West to death-

A few years later, Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" claimed to use a lot of real equipment and large-scale scenes to interpret the Normandy landing, which can only be said that the West has an absolute advantage in special effects, but the scale is not comparable to that of Chinese missions with cheap manpower.

Even the "Last Emperor", which Gu Biao has just experienced in person in the past two years, originally said that he had invested 20 million or 30 million US dollars, but the tens of thousands of group performances were not paid in earnest, but only given some allowances according to the militia. (Of course, Gu Biao is more generous in this time and space, and he also pulls people to go to Lijiapo to watch the game, and the allowance he gives is higher than in history)

Now, Gu Biao has obviously encountered a big project at close range.

The dramatization of the four famous novels is also a relatively important task for the relevant cultural departments and even some general bureaus.

However, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin" involved too many costume war scenes and too many martial arts elements, and the budgets of the relevant cultural departments in the 80s could not bear it, so they were all left for filming in the 90s-

"Armageddon" is a modern war, although it costs more, but at least you can directly ask the troops to borrow equipment. As for the props of costume war dramas, they all have to be bought and customized out of thin air, and the relevant cultural departments can't shoot if they don't pay real money.

So what can be filmed in the 80s is "Journey to the West" and "Dream of Red Mansions", which have a smaller number of people and scenes in ancient costumes. "Journey to the West" has been filmed intermittently for two years, and "Dream of Red Mansions" is only now in intensive preparation.

Gu Biao's grades in science since he was a child in his previous life were not bad, so he has always been an atheist with a daily mentality, and when he started reading the books of the four famous books in the fourth grade of primary school, he couldn't read "Journey to the West". As for the Internet when he later became an adult, he had never read all kinds of fantasy texts of Xuanqi Demon in his life. (García Márquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude doesn't count.)

"Journey to the West" will naturally not participate.

"Dream of Red Mansions" can be tackled a little, especially if it is helpful for his wife's future.

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Because he still has a few days off in the capital, and because he has made meritorious contributions to the project of "The Last Emperor", visitors from the relevant cultural departments will continue to visit Gu Ao, either to thank him or to make promises, which saves him a lot of trouble.

On the third day after talking to Researcher Zhu, a high-level writer visitor who was inconvenient to reveal his specific identity came to congratulate him, and the reason was naturally that he won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay just for Xiao Sui.

This kind of drama has been staged many times, because every little golden man in the Oscars has a counterpart who will come to rub the relationship.

If Gu Biao could be as powerful as in the history of another time and space and win the Best Original Music Award, then the leaders of the Central Conservatory of Music and the China Music Association would also come, and this circle would be like this.

Of course, Gu Biao wanted to take the opportunity to entertain him with good wine and meat.

The dishes are all the most high-end specialty dishes of Diaoyutai next door and the Jingxi Hotel diagonally opposite the door, and they are delivered to the house while they are hot.

The writer (hereinafter referred to as A Wenhao), who was originally just a routine to express goodwill and inconvenient to reveal his specific identity (hereinafter referred to as A Wenhao), immediately felt flattered when he saw the Buddha jumping over the wall with Liao Shen and Liao Bao stewed on the table.

"How dare you do this, Comrade Gu is really bankrupt. ”

Of course, A Wenhao can be called Gu Sheng or Gu Ju (Huaxing Communication's level is the director), but in the end, he still chose "Comrade Gu" who couldn't see the level.

This is also considering that Gu Biao's identity has not been completely separated now, and he has just returned from Georgetown's PhD study for less than half a year, and the organization cannot let him go for the time being for the sake of publicity.

If you call him boss, it is undoubtedly asking him for trouble.

And the other party's level is not lower than Gu Biao, so there is no problem with calling it like this. China also has writers at the ministerial level and writers at the bureau level.

Gu Biao didn't care about it: "Eh, you're welcome, I'm not in a hurry, I don't have a cook at home, and I don't even have time to cook the home-cooked Xiao Cai, so I can only order two from the restaurant next door, where is the cost, you don't think it's simple." ”

A Wenhao was speechless: You will call Diaoyutai and Jingxi Hotel "the restaurant next door"?

Although the location where Gu Biao lives is really awesome, those two places are really next door.

But even if it's the restaurant next door, there's no need to pick the most expensive dishes. It's also a shame that now that it's been 84 years, the country has opened up further, and there are more things that can be bought with money.

If it was a few years earlier, you didn't have a state banquet task, and you could get this kind of fat and huge Liao Shen Liao Abalone, a specialty of Zhangzi Island in Luzhou?

The fish maw, fish lips, scallops, and pheasant eggs stewed in the Buddha jumping over the wall are also rare and superb.

As for opening a bottle of Lafite the year before last, it is even more indispensable, Gu Biao is now opening a bottle when he encounters a little serious matter, anyway, he took a thousand boxes from Kong Han Traitor.

With such hospitality, many topics are easy to talk about.

After three rounds of drinking, Gu Biao casually mentioned: "I heard that W Zhuxi has recently been looking for a place to study and plan the Grand View Garden to be used for the "Dream of Red Mansions" project?"

"There's such a thing, the ministry's task. "A writer.

Gu Biao directly pouted to the side: "What do you think of my garden?"

A Wenhao was slightly embarrassed: "Of course this place is good, but it is definitely not big enough to shoot "Dream of Red Mansions". ”

Gu Biao couldn't help laughing, he didn't expect the other party to have such a misunderstanding.

"Of course I don't want to use my house to shoot a TV series for the country, the land in the capital is scarce, and who can circle so many houses. Naturally, it is to the outside and cover it separately. He clarified, and then changed his words,

"But you also know that I know a lot of foreign entertainment capital, if W is interested or someone who sets up a project, feels that there are difficulties in resources, and has thought about introducing foreign capital to cooperate, I can match.

You may not know that foreigners have invested in 'Lanting Cinemas' in Qiantang and created a lot of scenery, and there are also Xiangjiang Company and Monaco Company that have contracted tourism development, and they feel that even if they don't charge money for filming, as long as the property rights of the follow-up garden belong to them and engage in tourism development, they will return to their original capital. Foreign capitalists have a better business brain than we do.

Therefore, as long as there is a need in the ministry, I will help you draw a line, and I think that Director Liu and Researcher Zhu can practice here in my hands, so it is better to find a place to build it first, anyway, it is foreigners' money, so don't be afraid of spending money. The follow-up property rights belong to them, and 1 yuan is symbolically rented to you for two years to film, it is estimated that there is no problem, do I have a big face. ”

A Wenhao heard that there are still good things in the world that "foreign capitalists pay money to build a garden, and after building it, rent it to the crew for two years for 1 yuan".

"Aren't foreign capitalists afraid of losing money? Comrade Gu, I know that you have a wide range of people and a big face, but this is also ......."

Gu Biao casually said nonsense: "How can you lose money? There are many examples of foreigners, so why did the New Zealand director who won the Oscar pull some costume fantasy films back to the motherland for filming, and the New Zealand side confiscated a penny from him, hoping that the gimmick of 'the best Oscar movie was filmed here with us' to drive local tourism." ”

Gu Biao's words, if they are placed in 20 years, are not nonsense. Because when Peter Jackson made the series of movies "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Hobbit", he really went back to New Zealand to do this, which is also the usual means used by countries that have little appearance rate in later generations to win the development of international tourism.

New Zealand had little international tourism in the 20th century, and its closest neighbors in the Pacific Ocean were thousands of kilometers away, and there were no beaches to see. Later, it was better to rely on Peter Jackson to press a magic IP of "Middle-earth".

It's just that it's still fifteen or sixteen years since Peter Jackson made "The Lord of the Rings". Gu Biao is so aggressive, but he also relies on the information asymmetry of A Wenhao, and he doesn't understand the operation of foreign industries.

Gu Biao said that there are such examples, which have noses and eyes, but without mentioning the name of Peter Jackson, you don't have to verify it at all.

A Wenhao couldn't help but believe six or seven points, he pondered for a while, and finally said: "But...... As far as I know, when the ministry greets W, they still hope to be close to the capital.

It's not a trivial matter to shoot "Dream of Red Mansions", it takes a year or two at every turn, so many people eat horses, and if you move to other places, the travel expenses are not a trivial matter, and you have to rent a place for the staff to live, so you can't live in a hotel for two years. ”

At the end of the day, it's still poor. If the Hollywood investors Gu Biao knows are deep-pocketed, what's the big deal about staying in a hotel for the crew for two years, and they don't need a five-star hotel, how much can it cost to find a passable hotel.

For this kind of easy-to-solve problem, Gu Biao is, of course, very authoritatively proposed:

"Then you go back and breathe with the leader first, I think I am very sure to persuade foreign businessmen to use the part of the land price difference saved as a subsidy for the crew's travel expenses-

People are rushing to make money, if you use other people's worthless land to speculate on popular projects to make it worthwhile, this appreciation part is not much more than a crew with two years of food, housing and car?

And the land in the capital is already very valuable, if it is in the urban area, every place has cultural heritage, and it will not rise much with a gimmick, and the accounts of foreigners are calculated in this way. ”

A Wenhao feels that his three views and perspectives on the problem have been greatly refreshed.

"Then I'll go back and talk to the leader - however, if Comrade Gu really wants to bring in foreign capitalists and cooperate according to this model, then the leader must first come to your house to inspect it and see if it can be enlarged according to this design. If the design evidence can't pass in the first place, then this matter must be solved first. ”

"I have confidence in the professionalism of Director Liu and Researcher Zhu. ”

Later, after Gu Biao left the capital and went south to the Special Administrative Region to take up his post, several groups of people really came to him for academic investigation (just academic investigation, no eating, drinking and having fun), and then the top experts nodded and said that this garden was to be obtained, so it was built in this style and completely according to the pattern of "Dream of Red Mansions".

As for site selection, foreign investors are also allowed to suggest that if they are really willing to reimburse the relevant units for two years of additional travel expenses in order to save the difference in land prices.

This kind of thing, of course, is impossible to change the matchmaker, but if you have helped the cultural department win the Oscar, it is logical. Nowadays, the state needs external recognition resources too much.

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Three shifts for the third day in a row!